User manual HITACHI 19VR11B

[. . . ] TABLE OF CONTENTS HITACHI TV/VCR Combination 19VR11B Owner's Manual Your Complete Guide to TV/VCR Combination Viewing and Recording This TV/VCR Combination will display television closed captioning ( accordance with paragraph 15, 119 of the FCC rules. or ), in Using these quality features: n Hi-Fi system n Rotary 4-head record/playback system n Bilingual on-screen menu display selectable in English or Spanish n Infrared remote control n Real time tape counter n 181 channel capability PLL frequency synthesizer tuner with direct station call n Closed caption system n Game mode n Auto power on and off system n Auto rewind when the end of a tape is reached n 2 Step picture search operation n CM skip n Still n Digital Auto Tracking (DTR) n Rental play mode n Auto repeat n Time search n Index search n Three different tape speeds: SP/LP/SLP n OTR (One Touch Recording) n 1 Year, 8 events (including Daily and Weekly Timer Recording) n VCR plus + n Auto return n Sleep timer n Auto clock setting Hitachi Home Electronics (America), Inc. 3890 Steve Reynolds Blvd Norcross, Georgia 30093 Tel. 770-279-5600 OEMN01153 © Hitachi, Ltd. [. . . ] If you enter the channel number manually, · It may take a few minutes for this search to be completed. If you choose [AUTO], · The TV/VCR must search through all the available channels one by one, starting with the lowest numbered channel. It must scan each channel of minutes to determine if that channel is transmitting the XDS signal, because the PBS station will send this signal only once every minute. This search could take up to 2 hours if the local PBS station is on a high numbered channel in your area or on your cable system. You may want to start this channel search at night when the unit is not in use. If the time that is automatically set by this selected PBS station is incorrect, it may not be your local PBS station, but one from a different time zone. Or there is a possibility that no channel in your area is broadcasting the XDS signal, as evidenced 25 PRESET FOR USE by no time being set even after an overnight search. In these cases, you must manually enter the correct local PBS station, or set the clock manually and turn off the Auto Clock Setting Feature. MANUAL CLOCK SETTING Make sure. . . · You must use the remote control for the following steps. In the example below, the clock is to be set to: DATE March 1st, 1996 SETTING TIME 5:40PM 1 Select "SETTING CLOCK" Press MENU button repeatedly to point to "SETTING CLOCK". 2 Select "MANUAL CLOCK SET" Press MENU button repeatedly to point to "MANUAL CLOCK SET". 3 Select the month Press CH or button repeatedly until your desired month appears. (Example: "03" for March) Then, press SELECT button. 4 Select the day Press CH or button repeatedly until your desired day appears. (Example: "01" for 1st) Then, press SELECT button. 5 Select the year 26 PRESET FOR USE Press CH or button repeatedly until your desired year appears. (Example: 1996) Then, press SELECT button. 6 Select the hour Press CH or button repeatedly until your desired hour appears. (Example: 5, PM) Then, press SELECT button. 7 Set the minute Press CH or button repeatedly until the desired minute appears. (Example: 40) 8 Start the clock Press MENU or SELECT button. Although seconds are not displayed, they begin counting from 00 when you press MENU or SELECT button. [. . . ] The tape box mentions it being closed captioned. Broadcasters may at times use a time compression process to speed up the actual program so that additional advertising time can be given. Since the decoder cannot read the compressed information, captions will be lost. The video tape was either an illegal copy or the duplicating company accidentally left out the captioning signals during the copy process. My TV screen shows a black You are in the TEXT mode. [. . . ]